Posted on Friday, 15th July 2011 by Declan Palazzi
The state of Iowa has paid London-based filmmakers $450,000 to cancel plans to shoot movies that could have qualified for millions of dollars in state tax credits. Midsummer Films and its subsidiaries won approval in 2009 to shoot six films with the help of the state’s aggressive tax incentives. But one month later, then-Gov. Read [...]
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Posted on Friday, 15th July 2011 by Declan Palazzi
The massive directorial team behind the upcoming film The ABCs of Death added two more members today in the form of Xavier Gens and Christopher Smith . Gens and Smith are the 24th and 25th directors to be signed on to direct a scene in the 26-chapted anthology produced in part by Austins Drafthouse Films. [...]
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Posted on Friday, 15th July 2011 by Declan Palazzi
BEVERLY HILLS, California – Forget Jason Segel’s full-frontal nudity in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and his unprintable monologues in I Love You, Man. He’ll be moving decisively into family territory when Disney releases The Muppets in November. Furthermore, when it comes to his Muppet project, Segel has been far more than just an actor for [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 14th July 2011 by Declan Palazzi
Actor Daniel Baldwin has filed for divorce and been granted a restraining order against his wife, claiming she punched him, threatened him with a knife in front of the couple’s children and made threats of violence and death “too numerous to list.” Baldwin, 50, said police told him to take his children out of the [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 12th July 2011 by Declan Palazzi
NEW YORK – The Harry Potter film franchise will not go gentle into that good night. And Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the hugely successful movies, couldn’t be happier about the tone of the sign-off. Opening worldwide July 15, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is a rousing finish to [...]
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